Photochemical carbonylation of alkyl iodides in the presence of various metal carbonyls

✍ Scribed by Teruyuki Kondo; Yasushi Tsuji; Yoshihisa Watanabe

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 263 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)82127-9

✦ Synopsis

Various transition metal complexes including group VII and VIII metal carbonyls are highly active catalyst precursors for the photochemlcal carbonylation of organic lodldes at room temperature under an atmospheric pressure of carbon monoxide. Primary, secondary and tertiary alkyl iodides which have B-hydrogens on sp '-carbons were smoothly carbonylated by this catalyst system without B-hydride elimination to give the corresponding esters In yields of 63 -88 %.